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 NATALYA ANTONOVA Professor of Piano Eastman School of Music |
Natalya Antonova made her debut with the Leningrad Philharmonic at the age of 16. She completed her undergraduate through postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Conservatory, where she later served as the youngest faculty member ever to be hired at the Conservatory. As a soloist of two major concert managements, "State Concert" and "Soviet Union Concert", she concertized throughout Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Litva, Georgia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary. She gave solo recitals in Moscow (Tchaikovsky Hall, Conservatory Hall, Gnesin Hall), Berlin, Sofia, Budapest, Leningrad (Philharmonic Hall, Conservatory Hall, State Concert Hall). After moving to the United States, Ms. Antonova continued her concertizing with recitals in Seoul, Paris, Boston, Buffalo, Houston, Honolulu, Fort Lauderdale, and throughout North and South Carolina and Michigan. She is a sought-after pedagogue and performing artist at music festivals throughout the world including summer festivals in Moscow, Budapest, Halle (Germany), Paris, Seoul, Brevard, and Honolulu. Her master classes gather enthusiastic crowds at such prestigious music schools as Moscow Conservatory, Gnesin Institute, New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, Longy School of Music, and Seoul National University, among others. Ms. Antonova is a prize winner in the State Competition for Culture and Esthetics, and special prize winner in the State Competition of Young Pianists, Moscow. Her publications include contributions to Russian Academy on Russian piano music of Scriabin, Stravinsky, and Moldavian composers. She served at the Leningrad Conservatory (1971-82); later serving on the faculties of Gnesin Institute of Music, Moscow (1982-93), New England Conservatory (1991-92), Longy School of Music (1991-93), Converse College (1991-93), Brevard Music Festival (1993). Currently Ms. Antonova serves on the piano faculty at the Eastman School of Music. |
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ANTONIO |
Praised as a "pianistic messiah," (Fort Worth Star Telegram), Antonio Pompa-Baldi emerged from the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition with a coveted silver medal as well as the Phyllis Jones Tilley Memorial Award for the Best Performance of a New Work. First-prize winner at the 1999 Cleveland Competition and a top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition, Mr. Pompa-Baldi has toured extensively in the United States and
Europe. He has brought his assured touch on the keyboard to some
of the world's major concert venues including Cleveland's Severance
Hall, Milan (Sala Verdi), Naples (Teatro Diana), New York's Lincoln
Center and Paris's Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, Salle Pleyel, Theatre
des Champs-Elysees and Théâtre du Châtelet performing
more than 70 engagements per season. Recent orchestral appearances
have included the Fort Worth Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Pacific
Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Peoria Symphony, Rockford Symphony,
Charleston Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra,
Southwest Florida Symphony, Spokane Symphony as well as the Orchestre
Philarmonique de Metz (France), Orchestre National de Paris-Radio
France, Symphony Orchestra of Sicily (Italy) and National Orchestra
of Santo Domingo. His recent recital engagements include Paris (Théâtre
du Châtelet), Bologna, Boston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, New
Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Hartford, Miami
and San Juan. He often performs chamber music, collaborating with ensembles such as the Avalon String Quartet, the Takacs String Quartet, and violinist Elmar Oliveira, to name a few. In Summer 2002, Mr. Pompa-Baldi appeared with the Boston Pops at Boston's Symphony Hall and was on the Faculty of TCU-Cliburn Institute. He also served as a juror for the Van Cliburn Third International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. The 2003-04 season includes appearances with the Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), Kansas City Symphony, Cleveland Pops, Lawton Philharmonic, Peoria Symphony, Symphony of the Americas (Miami) and the Canton Symphony, in addition to recitals in New York's Carnegie Hall, Chicago, Portland, (OR), Sacramento, Fort Worth and more. Mr. Pompa-Baldi has been seen and heard many times on French National Television Antenne 2 and Radio-France, Cleveland's WCLV, Boston's WGBH, and National Public Radio's "Performance Today". |
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The 2002 recipient of the MTNA-Frances
Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award, Barbara Lister-Sink has performed
as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe
and has recorded for NPR, the CBC and Radio Netherlands as well as
for the Well-Tempered, Philips, Emergo and Music & Arts labels.
As artistic collaborator, she has appeared with principal players
of most major American and Dutch orchestras, with the Cleveland,
Ciompi, Chester and Alexander quartets, and members of the Fine Arts,
Lenox, Muir and Guarneri string quartets. During a six-year residency
in the Netherlands, Ms. Lister-Sink was keyboardist for the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Notes from European critics
include: "Technically as well as musically an exceedingly gifted
musician;" "Played with absolute understanding, rich imagination
and elegant, well-balanced musicality." The DeTijd/ Amsterdam
critic wrote, "Time and again out of the crowded ranks of pianists,
a few will surface hose talents cause the careers of the rest to
grow pale by comparison... Barbara Lister-Sink gave the impression
of belonging to such an elite. " A graduate of Smith College, Professor Lister-Sink won the Prix d'Excellence from the Utrecht Conservatory and was finalist in the Allesandro Casagrande International Piano Competition. She has performed with the Harvard Chamber Players and at the New Hampshire, Skaneateles, Brevard and Chautauqua summer music festivals. Her piano teachers include John Duke, Edith Lateiner-Grosz and Guido Agosti. Ms. Lister-Sink has served on the Artist Faculty of the Eastman School of Music, the Amsterdam Muziek Lyceum, Duke University, and the Brevard Music Center. Barbara Lister-Sink is also recognized as a pioneer and international leader in the field of injury-preventive keyboard technique. Her video Freeing the Caged Bird - Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique, (www.freeingthecagedbird.com) has received international acclaim. Piano & Keyboard magazine called it "brilliantly conceived and produced." World-renowned concert pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy praised Ms. Lister-Sink’s work as "monumental." |
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CHU-FANG HUANG |
Chu-Fang began her piano studies in her native China at the age of seven. She was the youngest student to receive a full scholarship to the Pre-College Division of the Shenyang Music Conservatory. That same year, she won first prize in the Chinese Prodigy Piano Competition. In 1997, Miss Huang received the Grand Prize in the Southeastern Asia Piano Competition in Hong Kong and the Young Musician Award for special achievement in interpreting Chinese modern music. Only two months after moving to the United States in 1998, Miss Huang made her U.S. debut in the Prodigy Series at the La Jolla Chamber Society, where a live recording of her performance was released under ALPINE label. Soon after, Miss Huang became the grand prize winner of the California International Young Artists Competition. As part of the award, she was invited to participate in the International Music Festival in Germany for a concert tour and a CD recording under the CAMUS label. Chu-Fang Huang also won numerous top prizes including the Kingsville International Piano Competition, the Corpus Christi International Piano Competition, the Isabel Scionti Piano Solo, the Grace Welsch Piano Prize, the Fort Collins Symphony Competition, the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, and the Hilton Head Competition, which will bring Miss Huang to her Carnegie Recital debut this November. As a solo performer, Miss Huang has concertized in most of the major cities in China. She has appeared as soloist with the Pacific Symphony, the Hong Kong Youth Symphony, the Shenyang Symphony Orchestra, the Eastern Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, and the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra. Her solo appearances in the U.S. include recitals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia. In Europe, Miss Huang has played recitals in the Klavier Festival Ruhr in Germany, Holland Music Sessions in the Netherlands, where both Head Councils of Culture from Chinese and American Embassies attended. Highlights in Miss Huang's upcoming engagements include a European tour in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, Prague, and the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, a recital tour in Chicago including concerts in the Steinway Society, Harold Washington Library, and the Beverly Arts Center, recitals at the Kravis Arts Center in Florida, the Young Pianists Series in Tennessee, the Field Recital Hall in Philadelphia, the Lawyer's concert group in New Jersey, and at the San Diego Arts Center in California. Concerto appearances this season will be with the Victoria Symphony, the Corpus Christi Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra Society, the Hilton Head Symphony, and the Illinois Philharmonic. Miss Huang will also be interviewed and broadcast on the National Public Radio in Washington prior to her Carnegie Hall Debut this fall. Miss Chu-Fang Huang was the recipient of "2001-2002 Most Outstanding Student" at the Curtis Institute of Music where she is currently completing her Bachelor of Music degree as a pupil of Claude Frank. |
| FESTIVAL FACULTY: |
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| CHARLES
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MARINA LOMAZOV SCOTT PRICE JOHN WILLIAMS University of South Carolina School of Music piano faculty |
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